Jansen: understanding tender specs faster
In construction tenders, the relevant door items are often buried among dozens of pages from other trades. For Jansen we built an early internal application that pre-structures bills of quantities, surfaces the relevant passages, and takes load off sales during the first review process.
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Industry
Industrial Doors · Fire & Sound Protection
Material
Bills of quantities as PDF
Format
Internal web application
Stage
Early version in domain testing
Problem
Relevant items get lost in the document
A bill of quantities is rarely written for sales. It's long, formal and spread across multiple trades. For Jansen, only a small part counts: which items concern doors? Which requirements are stated there? Which passages need a domain review? This first pass ties up time, even though it doesn't yet add value to the quote.
Solution
First ease the review, then automate further
The application reads uploaded tender PDFs and extracts the items that may be domain-relevant for Jansen. What matters here isn't maximum automation, but a solid first draft: the person sees the source, checks the suggestion, and decides what to keep. So responsibility stays with sales, while the tedious groundwork shrinks significantly.
- Upload a tender PDF and have it pre-structured automatically
- Review door-relevant items with a reference to the source passage
- Correct results instead of searching the whole document by hand
- Build out configuration logic and system handovers only once the extraction holds up in daily use
Impact
Faster to a domain yes or no
The early version helps the team understand faster whether a request is relevant and which items need a closer look. That lowers the barrier to reviewing even large tenders, and creates a clean basis for later steps: better configuration suggestions, clearer handovers, and over time fewer lost quote opportunities.


